Directories Books

This is the definitive reference for all things Irish in the New England States. Whether you're looking for events, education, artists, organizations or just a pub, here's the place to begin. It's very handily divided up by state and by category. The alphabetized index is extremely helpful too.

Written by Victoria-based, award-winning journalist Ross Crockford, Victoria: The Unknown City is an in-depth guide to one of Canada's and the world's top tourist destinations. Packed with directions, recommendations, and tidbits of history regarding everything from popular bars to the remnants of the original Fort Victoria to local haunted locations and advice for avoiding long waits and bad seats on the BC Ferries, Victoria is the "go-to" guide for experiencing all the adventure and wonder the city has to offer. Black-and-white photographs and an index round out a solid guide to tourist activities from sports to dining to shopping, nightlife, and experiencing local media. Recommended as a supplemental resource for Victoria vacationers looking to get the most out of their visit.

If you are trying to fund raise for a non profit organization like a mosque, synagogue or church the lessons in this book may be very applicable.

In summary the book explains how to set up a fund raising board, what sacrifices the leaders of the fund raisers need to make to stay involved and a variety of successful strategies depending on the audience you're working against.

The one liner: "Do I raise a million dollars from one person or a dollar from a million people?"

The Handbook features historical vignettes, campus sports, and campus student services, costs...even religious affiliations! Great one-stop resource, excellent for any student and affordable too.

The book was written by then UW-Milwaukee Professors Starbuck and Nystrom. Dr. Nystrom, my graduate advisor, is an excellent author and the book provides detailed information regarding the structures and actions or organizations. Their theories on organizational decay are very useful in understanding organizations.

My only regret is that this book is out-of-print; however, if one is planning a ski vacation anywhere in the Alps, this book is priceless. Claire Walter, of Skiing Magazine, lists ski areas for each country as a chapter. Each area is decribed succintly including statistics and trail maps. Each resort is rated from 1 to 10 for snow and skiing conditions,apres-ski, other sports and value for money. The pictures of each resort area make one drool! We have used it 4 times and it works. Pray for a new publication of this guide.

As the author of this book, I want to let everyone know that Have Dog Will Travel-WASHINGTON Edition is officially out of print. It has been replaced by my newer volume in this guidebook series: Have Dog Will Travel-NORTHWEST Edition, which covers all the dog-friendly lodgings throughout Washington PLUS all of Oregon and Idaho as well. The NORTHWEST Edition is also available from Amazon.com. Happy traveling with your dog!

With a hefty 2,500 pages, Headquarters USA 2002 (formerly Business Phone Book USA) is an utterly thorough reference of more than 123,000 unique listings for the headquarters of major businesses and other organizations in the United States. Headquarters USA 2002 offers up-to-date contact information for these businesses as well as a vast range of organizations, agencies, institutions, and even high-profile individuals. Also included are fax numbers, toll-free numbers, World Wide Web addresses, stock symbols and stock exchanges for the businesses that have these features. Headquarters USA 2002 has also been updated with many new categories, such as book festivals, book producers, computer system design services, electronic bill presentment and payment services, Greek letter organizations, language schools, and more. There are also area code tables in both state and area code order, area code and zip code guides, indexes of classified headings, and a table of conglomerates and their subsidiaries, among countless other features. Overall, Headquarters USA 2002 is a superb, first-rate reference for anyone who needs to look up business information quickly and accurately!

Between 7:00pm and 1:00am is a good time to get answers to a health care system moving from the traditional office face-to-facing with doctors to self-managed lay medicine online. A good way to surf these Internet health and medical resources is by signing up with a computer network, such as America Online, CompuServe, Delphi, eWorld, Genie, Microsoft Windows 95, Prodigy, The Well, or Women's Wire. Self-helpers can then access such biomedical databases as the HealthNet Reference Library, Information USA/health, and Medline; Internet mailing lists, such as HMATRIX-L's popular and professional resources for laypeople and professionals; the Medical Support Bulletin Board; the Medical Matrix gopher site; the MedWeb free medical library; and USENET newsgroups. Such directories and search engines as InternetSleuth, the Multimedia Medical Reference Library, and the Whole Internet Catalog of Health can find relevant web sites ranging from Good Medicine alternative and mainstream medical practices, to Internet Vet, PharmInfoNet, Traveler's Choice worldwide health conditions, and Yahoo/health.

Or a health information broker---such as The Health Resource Inc., Med Help International, and Plane Tree Health Resource Center---could be hired to do all the footwork. Or a non-digital start would be to call the Self-Help Clearinghouse and to read THE SELF-HELP SOURCEBOOK. This self-help focus by author and physician Tom Ferguson works well with John M. Grohol's THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES ONLINE. Readers trying to pool as much Internet health and medical information as possible could also look to Bruce Maxwell's HOW TO FIND HEALTH INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET and MOSBY'S MEDICAL SURFARI.

This resource is invaluable for any high school or college student seriously researching and considering a health professions career. It's great for the "pre-med" student who isn't "pre-med" anymore, but still wants a career in health care. It's a library MUST-HAVE for their career/academic advisor as well! I find the most valuable information is the easy reference to all the most important websites on each career for the student's and advisor's further research, plus the comprehensive by state listing of all the accredited programs for each career. How did I survive without this guide?!